If Microsoft gets its way, it might soon have a system that’ll automatically set parental locks over TV or computer content. How? By measuring your body proportions and comparing them against a set of data. Not by measuring tapes or anything of the sort. In fact, you don’t even have to do anything – Microsoft plans to use a 3D depth camera for the job.

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